The Hershey Press 1926-06-24

              Sousa To Have Many Novelties
at Hershey Park July 4th & 5th
Novelty and innovation always have
been the controlling motives in the pro-grams
of Lieut. Com. John Philip Sousa,
who this season will make his thirty-fourth
annual tour at the head of his famous
organization, opening at Hershey Park on
July 4th, playing a two-day's engagement
in the Park Convention Hall, with con-certs
afternoons and evenings. From the
days when he played excerpts from the
Wagnerian operas throughout America
before the operas themselves had been
performed in America, even at the Metro-politan
Opera house, Sousa has insisted
that his programs always must contain
many new numbers, both of his own writ-ing
and by others. This season is no ex-ception.
Notable among the novelties for the
new Sousa season is a band arrangement of
George Chadwick's "The Ride of Tam
O'Shanter." Chadwick is the President
of the New England Conservatory of
Music, and the transcription for band has
been made by Sousa himself. Sousa will
also play a new composition by John Pow-ell,
the pianist, entitled "Fun at the Fair,"
a melodic picture of the Circassian lady of
the side-shows of another generation. In
addition Sousa has arranged for band the
Juba Dance movement from "In the
Bottoms," the characteristic suite of R.
Nathaniel Dett, the negro composer.
Sousa's own contributions to the pro-gram
in the way of original composition
will be three marches, "Sesqui-Centennial"
"Pride of the Wolverines," and "Gridiron
Club." For Miss Marjorie Moody, for
several years soprano soloist with the band,
he has written a song "The Thrush,"
which is a musical setting to the poem of
that name by Lucy Larcom, a New Eng-land
poetess, who lived from 1826 to 1893.
Sousa also has made the arrangements
for his humorous numbers, which include
two humoresques, "Waiting", based upon
"Oh How I've Waited for You" from "By
the Way," and the Sousa musical debate,
"The Wets and the Drys", as well as a
musical burlesque, entitled , "On Your
Radio." In addition , he has made the
transcriptions for the jazz numbers which
will be presented both by the band and the
octette of saxaphone comedians.
Everything In Readiness for
State C E. Convention
Miss Mabel Lingle, who is secretary of
the local C. E. Committee, and a corp of
co-workers, are busily engaged every night
at the Hershey High School building
registering the names of the delegates who
will at tend the sessions of the 12th bi-ennial
convention of the State Christian
Endeavor Convention to be held in the
Hershey Park Convention Hall beginning
Monday, June 28th, and continuing until
Friday, Jul y 2d.
Over 3500 delegates have already regis-tered,
and a large number of additional
names are received daily.
Homer Rodenhavcr, hymn writer and
choir leader, who assisted "Billy " Sunday
in his evangelistic campaigns, will be the
director of the combined choir, which will
number 500 singers. There will be a con-ference
every morning of all who are in-terested
in leading church choirs and
Christian Endeavor choruses, at which
Mr. Rodenhavcr will give practical talks
and demonstrations upon directing a choir.
The program is as follows:
MONDAY, JUNE 28th
2.00 p. m.—Meeting of the State Ex-ecutive
Committee.
3.30 p. m.—1're-Convention Prayer
Service. I-eader—Rev. Floyd Tompkins.
7.30 p. m.—Mass Meeting with Homer
Rodeheaver as Chorister , and Mr. J. A.
Sharks, Field Secretary of the United
Society of C. E. as the speaker.
9.30 p. m.---Fellowship Gathering on
Athletic Field.
TUESDAY, JUNK 2<)t h
8.15 a. in.—Quiet Hour Service. Rev.
Tompkins, leader.
9.30 a. ni .--First Conference Period .
With conferences on the following subjects:
Union OIVu-cvb, Prayer Meeting. Steward-ship,
I-ookout , Effici ency, Christian Citi-zenshi
p, Evangelism and Personal Work ,
Juni or, Life Vocations and Music.
10.30 a. m.- -Second Conference Period
with the following subj ects. Society
Officers , Missions, Quiet Hour , Intoi-iue-diute.
Pastors, Social, Floating, Publicity
and Literature , Juni or.
11.15 n. i n - -Motion Pictur es on Float-ing
Work and an address by Rev. (). M.
Tresslcr.
12.00 a. m. Recreational Needs of
Today by Mr. E. A. Pritchard. Aftenuxm
open for recreation.
7.30 p. in. -Mass Meeting with address
by Rev. C. Wallace Petty, of Pittsburgh.
JUNI OR CONVENTION
8.15 a. in. to 12.00 a. in. Junior Con-vention
will be held in Hershey High
School and a special Recreational Program
in the afternoon.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30th
8.15 a. m.—Quiet Hour, Rev. Tompkins,
leader.
9.30 a. m.—Conference Period—Same
as Tuesday.
10.30 a. m.—Conference Period—Same
as Tuesday.
11.15 a. m.—Denominational Confer-ences.
Afternoon open for recreation.
7.30 p. m.—Mass Meeting with Mr.
James C. Mace, of Pittsburgh , as the
speaker.
THURSDAY, JULY 1st
7.00 a. m.—^Quict Hour Service at Her-shey
Reservoir with Dr. Tompkins as
leader.
930 a. m.—Conference Period—Same
as Tuesday.
10.30 a. in.—Conference Period—Same
as Tuesda y.
11.30 a. m.—Intermediate Demonstra-tion.
12.03 a. m.—A Discussion of Alumnae
Work in our State. Afternoon open for
recreation.
7.30 p. m.—Mass Meeting with Dr.
Daniel A. Poling, President of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor as speaker.
INTERMEDIATE CONVENTION
8.15 a. in. to 12.30 a. in.—Intermediat e
Convention will be held in Hershey High
School building with a separate program
and special recreational program in the
afternoon.
FRIDAY, JULY 2nd
8.15 a. m.--Quiet Hour Service—Rev .
Tompkins, leader.
9.30 n. m.- First Conference Period--
Same as Tuesday.
10,30 a. in.—Second Conference Period
--Same as Tuesday.
11.30 a. in.--Proscnlatioii of the Key-stone
Endeavor and Christian Endeavor
World.
12.00 a. in.—Address by Rev. J. R.
Humphreys, Reading. Subject , The Ap-plication
of the Convention Challenge to
(h e Activities in Our Own Church and
Society. Entire afternoon o|X!H for recrea-tion.
, 7.30 p. in. -'Closing Mass Meeting.
Address by Dr. Win. Hiram Foulkes, of
Cleveland , Ohio. ' /
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In addition to the regular program each
fla y. Tuesday will lx; known as Junior
Day. Wednesday, Alumni and Thursda y,
Intermediate.
An Opportun ity to
Learn How to Swim
Miss Eunice Willi!, a graduate of the
Health Education Course at l einp|e
Univ ersity, Philadelphia , has been engaged
us swimming Instructor for women mid
childr en at the I lershey Park swimming
pool. ,
Miss Wlke has had considerable ex-igence
in teaching swimming, and she Is
now forming classes, consisting of classes
for kiddles , int erniedlalesand women,
The classes will lie held every inoming,
and th ere will be no Instruction charges.
Prlval e lessons will be given in the alter-noon,
for which there will be a smiill fee,
This Is an opportunity to have your
child learn how to swim, and every parent,
in this communit y should take advantage
of it. , , , ¦
Miss Wlke Is now forming I""' classes -
sec her personally at the swimming pool, or
call up HerHhey Park management, Hell
18-M.
"Sandy" at Par k
Theatre This Week
"Sandy," the story of a Ilumxir bride ,
which has Ix-en running serially in more
than 100 newspaixirs, has Ix-en converted
Int o a motion picture by Fox Minis and
will be shown at the llci'slioy Park Theatre
on Thursday, Frida y and Saturday, June
1M. 25mid 2(1. '
Fox Films made a rnreful search for an
nclr cHii to bring to the screen the vivid
personality of Sandy McNeil, the beautifu l
young gill of nineteen who is the heroine
of the st ory. Madge Bellamy was finally
selected. Sandy 1s the modern young
woman aqulver with the lovo of life and
imiml lent wit h hampering rules of conduct.
In the motion picture version pnxluced
by Fox, advantage whs taken of every
opportunity presented by the wide variety
of thrillin g episodes to bring to the screen
the most colorfu l picture of the 192(1 girl ,
her Ideas of life and all the complexities of
the modern social order. *
If Summer Comes
The calendar says summer is here. But
at this writing, as the item writers say, it is
here in name only. It is not an unusual
thing to see people of advancing years
wearing heavy winter overcoats these
days. (Probably the day this meets the
public eye it will be hotter than hot pepper)
And, most convincing proof that summer
is here in name only and not in fact, the
ladies are not yet wearing their furs. All
our friends of German extraction are still
vearing their wests and all sensible people
are clinging to the red flannels. The old
gray mare is still hanging on to her winter
coat, and the goose is still keeping her
goose pimples. It begins to look as if the
old weather prophets who predicted 1926
was to be another year without a summer
are O. K. in their propheteering.
There is no use getting hot about the
weather. We can only keep cool these
days and wait for warm weather. Mean-while
we are conditioning our plans for the
summer vacation this year with the little
joker, "If Winter Comes."
The Road
The road of life is full of holes, and bumpy,
With turns that sharply lead to left or
right,
It has its detours that are long and humpy,
Most aggravating things to drive at
night.
The road of life is strewn with broken
bottles
And tacks for those who make excessive
speed,
Who drive their straight eights with wide
open throttles
Much faster than there's really any need.
The road of life has billons of us drivers
Just going out to take a little spin.
And spending carelessly our ones and
fivers,
Not caring where we go nor where we've
Do We Grow Old?
We evidently do. When we come to the
parting of the hairs on our vaulted dome
of a morning or an evening or a noon, or
whenever the comb or brush resembles the
comb or brush in the well known hair tonic
advertisement showing the disconsolate
man gazing at the evidence that his heirs
have had a falling out among themselves.
Ach veil. Supposing we are getting
bald, and our chest is getting under our
belt, we can begin to take pleasure in
bawling out the younger generation for
their waywardness, the while we sigh,
"What is the world coming to, anyway?"
Not What He Planted
Citicus—What did you have in your
garden last year?
Suburbanite—Plymouth Rocks, Leg-horns,
and Rhode Island Reds.
Irony
The scientist who was to lecture on "The
Indefinitude of Space" was half an hour
late. He couldn 't find a place to park.
Party Loyalty
Says Old Lige Tate of Skunks Corners,
"I'm a pretty good Republican myself, but
I can't come up to my neighbor, Ed Hig-gins.
.Why, Ed is that strong a Republi-can
that when Cyrus Doubletree offered to
pay him the five spot he has owed Ed for
two years, Ed refused the money because
the fiver had Andrew Jackson 's picture on
it."
Personally, if anyone were to offer us
five dollars to vote for Andrew Jackson in
the fall we would do so.
Moft Appropriate
Isabel, who is not so popular now as she
was five years ago, the first time she was
twenty-one, declares she feels so blue she
has a notion to, change her name on her
next twenty-first birthda y to Wasabel.
Not Corresponding:
Mrs. Blank—Have you a letter from
your last mistress?
Applicant—No, mum. We parted good
friends , but we ain 't carryin ' on no cor-respondence.
Increasing Proficiency
Mabel , Jack paid me a great compliment
last night. He says I grow more beautiful
every t ime he sees me.
Marie—-Well, practice makes perfect ,
you know, dear.
Says the Willage Wit, " "lis but the eye
of childhood that fears a painted devil ,
according to Shakespeare or some ob-serving
writer; but telieve me kid , there's
more than one painted devil could tell
mama, Vere is her vand'ring boy to-night.
The Land of the Free
We are today the unquestionable miracle
of the ages so tar as successful government
is concerned .
—Senator Arthur A. Robinson.
It ought to make every Tom, Dick, and
I Iarry in this fair land and free throw out
his chest and exult to the utmost that
would-be-senators and would-lxi-govcr-nors
are willing to sixind millions for the
pr ivilege of doing the will of the people.
When such exalted patriotism is the order
of the day, the average citizen need have
no fear that the country is going to the
txiw-wows.
A Sporting Chance
What we can 't understand is how so
many sportsmen who would never think of
Hli ooting a rabbit that is sitting still never
give the weeds in their gardens a sporting
chance. Ourselves, we like to. give the
weeds a couple of week's start on us and
then try to clean them oil.
The toughest job we ever attempted was
trying to sleep while the pneumatic drill
was m o]x;rnVlon excavating for the gas
line in front of our palatini residence. It
was early mornin g and we wanted at least,
thirty-nine more winks before attempting
th e duties of the day. No sooner would
Morpheus carry us back to Old Virgiiuiy
than the rat-a-tat of the drill in the ditch
would carry us back l o Hershey, Pa., so
closely it resembled the ringing of our old
alarm clock,
"You're one blank of an Inspector ," we
overheard one of the workers on the gas
line say. "Whenever we want, to go
around a rock , you are always looking."
The gift of a mammoth straw hat seems
to displease Sinclair I-ewls, The size Is
207 1">-H. A merchant sent It in a wagon
as a roof for the author 's brain children.
l.ewin ordered It. taken away.
Aw, well, Lewis should worry. It 's
lust that much more free advertising for
liiin.
More Time and Change
A few years ago If father refused to wear
Snrtcra mid let Ilia socks wrinkle or slide
own over his hIhxjh , lie was disgrace to the
family. Nowadays, however, lie is right
in style with the college Ixiys and tins the
honor of havlnir started a new fashion.
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Interesting Data On Training
the Boy at the Hershey
Industrial School
Owing to the numerous inquiries for
further information pertaining to the
contemplated Senior Trade Division of the
Hershey Industrial School, which will be
built north-west of Hershey Park, we
publish the following information:
"It is not the purpose to make the
Senior Division a school of engineering.
Its purpose is to prepare students for use-ful
and proficient employment in specific
occupations.
"It must be borne in mind that the
several courses decided upon for this
division must fit those who complete them
to enter the trades with junior-journey-man
standing, and consequently the stu-dent
should be able to advance much
faster and farther than those who have not
pursued studies of a similar nature.
"These courses are so balanced in shop
work and related academic subjects that
they will lay the foundation for the devel-opment
of a high type of workmen, capable
of holding a creditable place in industry
and eligible for leadership.
"Proper instruction will be given for the
development of social and civic duties, and
the duties and privileges of a citizen must
be taught by precept and example. This
is a very important part of the curriculum.
"The courses are chosen so that they
may lead to immediate employment after
the student has completed the require-ments.
"Our students come from many different
communities, therefore the courses are not
selected with reference to the industrial
needs of a given community. It is the aim
of the Hershey Industrial School to return
the students to their .respective communi-ties,
and to their surviving, mothers or
relatives, as useful citizens who are so qual-ified
that they may help uplift the com-munity
which sent them to the Hershey
Industrial School as a dependent child.
It is not the aim of this school-home to
train boys to fit our own local industrial
needs only.
"Past experience has been that our
graduates desire to remain in the local
community, because they know conditions
here better, and are acquainted with the
local populace and other environments. As
a result they generally visit their native
home and then return for employment in
the local industries. Provision is made that
any student who completes his course with
an honorable record shall always have
preference if he applies for employment in
any Hershey industry, still it must be
borne in mind that the students do not
graduate from the Hershey, Industrial
School with any strings on them. All
they owe the school is that they make good
in life.
"The Hershey Industrial School is not
an Orphans' Home, nor a Children's
Institution, in the generally accepted
term, but a school-home which trains
children in a way that is emulating to
private homes, rich, middle-class, and poor
alike.
"We do not turn out abnormal students.
Mental development depends upon latent
mental ability. The limiting factor is
mental capacity. Much carbon is taken
to Amsterdam that cannot be polished
into diamonds, because it is only coal. But
proficient workmen may be made out of
limited-minded human beings. Our aim
is to make the best possible product from
the material upon which we are privileged
to work."
In the development of the student in
the Hershey Industrial School, we find
some interesting data, as follows:
"The boy may be admitted to the Her-shey
Industrial School at four years of age.
This is a tragedy in his young life. He has
experienced other tragedies. His family
has been severed by death. No one is
responsible for this—it cannot be helped.
His family has met financial distresses.
None of his relatives can, or care to, take
him.
"The mother of the boy may have ap-plied
for 'Mother's assistance' but the list
of applicants was so long that her name
would not be reached within a year. Fur-thermore
the financial assistance would be
so small that it would help very little, and
it would continue for a comparatively
short time. The mother has had a severe
trial. Such a trial as is seldom exper-ienced
by 'Welfare Workers'. The boy
may have been offered a foster home, but
she realizes that every effort will be made
to sever her from her child if she gives him
to anyone but relatives to raise. She is a
natural mother and decides to do just as
those do, who are in independent financial
circumstances. She sends him to a place
somewhat akin to a boarding school, where
some kind-hearted man has seen fit to set
aside sufficient funds to properly house,
clothe, board and educate him with no
cost to her and none to anyone else, and as
a consequence she feels that she is de-pendent
upon no community drives for
charity nor local committee of any kind.
A place where she may visit her boy as
often as she chooses, and where the boy is
never taught to shun her regardless of her
condition. Where she can look forward to
the return of her'son at eighteen years of
age to help and comfort tier in her ad-vanced
years.
"It is heart-breaking to see the separa-tion
of a mother and child :—I would to God
that these things would not happen. The
more the boy cries at this separation the
shorter will be his period of homesickness.
The mother is asked not to visit her son
during the first month for her own and the
boy's good.
"The boy finds himself with about 18 or
20 other boys of his age. He is in the
country in a fine house, warm in winter
and with cool shade trees in summer. He
has a nice clean bed to sleep in, dandy toys
to play with, and picture books to look at.
He has a large playground and playroom, a
fine kindergarten equipment, a smiling
teacher, his own little chair at a little
dining-table with a fine white table cloth,
small knives, forks, spoons, glasses and
dishes—but best of all, he has two fine,
loving house-mothers to whom he soon
becomes so attached that his own mother
has him crying on her hands if she keeps
him away from them more than a day.
"The first evening comes and the boy is
given a bath and taught to kneel at his
bedside for the evening prayer. On
Sunday he goes to Sunday School, and
many times he goes for walks and always
takes a nap during the day. If he has a
headache or a sore throat, he is placed into
the infirmary and if anything worse de-velops
he is taken to the school hospital.
His tonsils and adenoids are removed, if
necessary. His teeth are adjusted, his
eyes examined and glasses procured. If
necessary, he is inoculated and injected so
that he becomes immune to everything but
religion. His birthdays are all remembered
by a special cake and a letter.andheisgiven
a ring, pin, badge, lucky penny or some
other birthday present.
The boy realizes that he belongs to
somebody. He may have some bad habits.
He may swear but those in whose keeping
he is realize that he is too young to under-stand.
He may have other so-called bad
habits all of which he is lead out of by ex-pert
care and knowledge of children.
"He will occasionally attend the Friday
afternoon programs in the Academic
department, and he, or a group of his age,
will take part. He will be taken to Her-shey
Park quite frequently, and at inter-vals,
when there are good 'Movies', he is
taken to see them. His hours for every-thing
are as regular as the clock, which has
had the happy effect of warding off many
contagious epidemics, for there has been
little sickness and only one death in the
school during the last sixteen years. This
death came during the influenza epidemic
when 74 boys were stricken in one day.
"The boy upon attaining the age of
six years, goes to school. Every six months
he is weighed and measured. His actual
height is about 44 inches and his actual
weight about 45 pounds. But that is far
from his imaginary height and weight
when he can show Miss Pearl his first little
book and his pencil and what he made in
school.
"He now comes into contact with the
worriments and pleasures of life: He has
his school work, learns school discipline,
enters class contests, group games, learns
athletic stunts, passes The Self Period',
from 3 years to 6 years; The Clique Period'
from 7 to 11 years; The Gang Period',
from 10 to 14 years. During the later
part of the 'Gang Period' he becomes ac-quainted
with the pre-vocational work of
the school during which time he has shop
samplings and vocational guidance. He is
now passing through his 7th, 8th and 9th
Grades, and is about ready to make a
vocational or professional choice. At this
period the student is placed on our merit
and demerit roll so that whatever he wants,
he earns and whatever he earns, he gets,
pleasant or unpleasant.
"Each boy has1 his own pets and every
stray cat or dog in the community will be
apt to be brought home by some boy to the
different dormitories so that the house-mothers
are often puzzled to know j ust
what to do with all the animal tramps. One
dog is called 'Monday' because he arrived
on that day, and 'Scow' and 'Ajax' were
two orphan kittens raised in the school, fed
with a medicine dropper. The only
animal the boys have never been able to
domesticate is a polecat, and several at-tempts
have been made on this animal
with loss of some clothing and temporary
loss of place at the table. The boys own
many pets. •They have a village of rabbits
which they call Bunnyville, and there are
also pigeon pens in Bunnyville.
"Special awards are given for merits.
Instead of giving him something for being
bad , he is denied privileges or he may be
set to special duties to perform—one hour
work for each demerit.
f The merits and demerits are given to
boys past 12 years of age as follows: MER-ITS—
personal appearance, 1 each da y, 7
per week ; aire of room and locker, I per
day; no demerits during week, 10; not
over 2 demerits during week, f>; special
favors, school or work credits.
"DEMERITS-Disobedience 1 to 2;
impertinence, 1 to 2; lying, 2 to 4; stealing,
2 to 4; having or using tobacco, 5; truancy,
5; missing snort assignments, 2; missing
long assignments, 5; tardiness, 1 for every
5 minutes or fraction ; throwing things, 2
to 5; fighting, 2; bull ying, 5; disorder, 1 to
2; swearing, 2 to 4; destruction of proixirty,
2 to 5."
An Opportunit y to
Attend Citizen Militar y
Trainin g Camp
The young men of Hershey ond vicinity
are presented an opportunity to take ad-vanta
ge of Uncle Sam's generous offer thin
summer and join the Citizen 's Military
Trainin g Camp at Camp Meade. Mary-land
, where they will serve as soldiers of
the U. S. A. for thirty days, beginning
July 8 to August 6. The purpose of the
C. M. T. C. Is to brin g together young men
of high tyix'B from all over the United
States on a common basis of equality, to
promote and stimulate patriotism, Ameri-canism
mid citizenship.
The object of these Training Camps Is to
tirin g together annually, for a month's
trainin g, the lx:st representative young
American Citizens from all sections of the
nation; to give them the basis of military
Instruction and that physical and moral
development that will fit them to become
influential leaders In their resixictlvo com-munities
in times of pem-ti and leaders for
National Defense in time of war; to incul-cate
a stronger patriotism and a whole-some
respect for discipline and olxxlicnco
to constituted authority ; alxwo all , lo
teach the young men of this generation
their obligation* to home and country.
For many good parents, it really solves
the problem of what to do with the restless
school boy on vacation tlmol
For further particulars apply to C. II.
Uhrlch or Harry Knloy, Herehey.
Hershey Men s Club
Taking on a New
Lease of Life
. A milliner ol Improvements and altera-ti
ons are being made at the Hershey Mcn't;
Club, and when completed , which will be
sometime next week , the men of this com-munity
will enjoy facilities second to none
anywh ere.
The old Quick Lunch nxmi has Ixien
rciiKxleled and workmen are now busily
engaged laying four howling alleys. This
room will make mi ideal IxiwliiiK alley.
The adjoining rcxiin , formerly occupied
by the I lershey Cafeteria , Is being changed
Into a reading and ixxil and billiard room.
There will Ixj three |xx>l tables. There
will bo plenty of chairs and benches —and
everything will he comfy.
In the rear of the bowling alley, lending
from the main gymnasium, an additi onal
liym rixini has been constructed . This
will be used to house the gym apparatus.
niiri will give the large gym additional
llwir space.
The room formerly occupied as the
reading' room and office , will Ixi used as a
lounging room. The office linn been
moved to the rear of the room.
The men and l>oy» of this community
are to Ixj congratulated iiixmi having the
opportunity of enjoying the many privi-leges
and advantages that the I leishey
Men's Club will now offer them.
Don't forget the Girl Reserves Sale on Sat.
FREE CONCERT AT HERSHEY PARK
"TED" BROWNAGLE'S
ARCADIANS
OF HARRISBURG
11 MUSICIANS, SINGERS AND ENTERTAINERS
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 27th
2.30 to 3.30 4.00 to 5.00
A CLASSIC AMONG ORCHESTRAS—INDORSED EVERYWHERE
—SPECIALIZING IN RHYTHM EFFECT AND HARMONY
Kiddies From New York
Tenements Coming Back
To the New York city tenement district
summer is coming. But there no cool
breezes will ripple through the treetops.
Grand street, Rivington street, Allen
street and others in that quarter of the
metropolis have no trees, no shade, no
grass, no flowers. Summer there means
more trucks and pushcarts, more crowded
sidewalks, more noise and more odors.
Fire escapes blossom forth with mat-tresses
and blankets in New York tene-ments
in summer. There the dwellers try
to get a little relief at night from oppressive
heat, but there is little to be had. Up from
the sidewalks of the canyon-like streets
rise the heat and the stench and tenement-dwellers,
young and old alike, must make
the best of it.
Many there are in these districts who
know and expect nothing different from
these sweltering streets. But the kiddies
who came to Hershey last summer for two
weeks of recreation amid healthful sur-roundings,
know that summer means some-thing
worth while in the places where the
flowers bloom, the grass grows and where
the trees rustle in the summer breeze. And
they are looking forward with eagerness to
the respite that two weeks "in the country"
will give them again this year.
Most of those who were here last sum-mer
will be back this year, many of them
into the same homes where their presence
last year resulted in lasting ties of friend-ship.
Others to whom the experience will
be wholly novel, will come this year. And
they, too, will find happiness in the homes
of Dauphin and Lebanon counties.
Residents of Hershey and surrounding
communities responded promptly last
summer to the appeal of the local commit-tee
to take one or more of these East Side
kiddies into their homes. More are re-sponding
this year and it is expected that
when the time comes for the children to
visit Hershey the latchstrings of scores of
homes will be out and the families will be
eagerly awaiting their arrival.
Two weeks in this garden spot of the
world mean much to these children of the
slums and will also mean much to the
people in whose homes they are guests.
If you haven't as yet listed your name
with those in charge of bringing the tene-ment
kiddies to Hershey now is the time to
act.
Mrs. Wm. C. Hackman is chairman of
this committee. Mrs. Hackman requests
all who desire to open their homes to one or
more of the children this summer to send in
their names without delay. Mrs. Hack-man's
phone number is 24-Y.
The two weeks' vacation period will be
that of the last week in July and the first
week in August.
Wm. Pottei ger is
Champion Strawberr y
Eater of Hershey
On Tuesday noon William Potteiger,
who is one of the mainstays of Harry
Christ's labor force, settled a wager that he
was the champion strawberry eater of
Hershey.
Daniel Funck, with whom the wager was
made, bought the strawberries, which con-sisted
of three quarts.
With the strawberries in front of him
Potteiger got busy, and he made the first
quart disappear in no time at all.
Encouraged by his fellow-workmen,
altho he needed none, Potteiger set to
work on the second quart and that , too,
disappeared as if by magic.
Without much ado, our strawberry
eater, grabbed the third box, and finished
it as easily as the other two boxes.
No more strawberries were to be had , as
Mr. Funck thought three boxes would
phase the lover of strawberries—and Mr.
Potteiger felt rather peeved that there
were no more to be had. as he was "just
beginning to get his fill.
Mr. Christ's force is endeavoring to
send Mr. Potteiger against Cyrus Ging-rich
, the champion eater of Lebanon. Mr.
Potteiger, however, is not so keen atxmt
tile contest, as he does not eat glass. I low-ever
, if strawberries are to be the bill of
fare, he is willing to participate , for he
believes he could eat a bushel of them, that
is, if somebody else pays for them.
Miss Harriet Gurne y
to Leave Hersh ey
Miss Harriet Gurney, secretary of the
local Y. W. C. A., has tendered her resigna-ti
on to take effect Jul y 1st.
Miss Guruey 's resignation was a great
surprise, not only to the members of the
Association, but to her many friends , who
have learned to love her and who will re-gret
to see her leave I lershey.
Miss Gurney has been with us a little
more than a year, and in that short lime
has, throu gh her enthusiasm and capabili-t
y, placed the Y. W. C. A. on a plane of
greater usefulness and activity.
Miss Guinify conceived the idea of
organizing (he Girl Reserves, and through
her persevering efforts, two splendid troops
are the result.
Miss Gurney will enter the Summer
Training School, a t New York City. Sins
has not as yet made any other plans for the
future.
HOLY COMMUNION AT HOLY
TRINITY ON SUNDAY
Holy Communion will bo ndnilnlslered
in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on Sun-day
morning at the morning service, Pre-paratory
services will Ixi held on Friday
evening at 7.45 o'cloc k , followed by Holy
communion. A s|x;cial service prepara-tor
y to communion will )x; held in the
church basement at 10.15 on Sunday morn-in
g for those who find it impossible, to be at
the preparatory services on Friday evening.
There will bo no evening services in Holy
Trinity Church on Sunday.
Alnmt sixty crippled children and m
many women guests of the Dauphin Coun-ty
I Ionic ond Ylomo for the Friendless and
Shut-ins were entertained at Heruhoy
Park on Monday.
There's a Good Show
at The Hershey
Park Theatre
There are a lot of people in this com-munity
who are passing up spending an
enjoyable evening by not attending the
Hershey Park Theatre. The feature films
are the latest , and the vaudeville is A No.
1. The programs have been varied and
excellent. The bill during the first part of
the week was metropolitan in every sense,
of the word. Every act that is billed
conies direct from New York City—and
all are top-notchers. And the price of
admission is within the reach of everyone—
30c for adults, 20c for children. Reserved
seats, 50c.
Carpenter's Orchestra , altho small in
number, is big in quantity and volume.
There work has been much appreciated.
As it is, however, the attendance is
growing each week, and goodly sized
audiences are greeting each performance.
The shows begin promptly at 7.45
o'clock, p. m., and , as a rule, are over by 10
o'clock.
Take a tip— and see the show. The pro-gram
for the latter part of the week is
particularly attractive.
The program for Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, June 24, 25 and 26, is as follows:
"Sandy", a feature film , starring Madge
Bellamy.
J<xi I.cVaux , the supreme accordionist.
Tim and Bett y in "Nonsense a la Carte."
Sherrie Mathews and Bill , in "Personali-t
y and Her Boy Friend."
Thirt y Pink Tcxis, in "The Harmonious
Threesome."
The. program for Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesda y, June 28, 2!) and 30, is as fol-lows:
"His Secretary ", a feature film , starring
Norma Shearer and Ixw Cody.
Rcxxle and Francis offers "Something
Different on the Slack Wire."
Lucille DeBols, "The Sunkist Nightin-gale."
Hal and Hazel 1 Kington in a comedy
skit, "Marketing."
"Penta ", with Hair y Holbnxik & Co.,
"The Magical Castinettes" and "A Span-ish
Serenade."
MRS. ASHLEY DEWOLF TO
ENTERTAIN AT BRIDGE
Mrs. Ashley DeWolf , Jr. will entertain
at ii bridge followed by tea at her home on
Thursday In honor of Miss Dorothy Mc-
Colluni, of Montclalr , N. J. Miss Mc-
Collinii is the guest for ten days of Mrs.
DeWolf' s sister, Miss ICsta Murrio, a class-mate
at Maryinoiiut College.
Other guests at the parly will bo: Miss
Murrio , Miss Winifred Meyers, Miss
Louise Stubbs, Miss Elizabeth Shearer,
Miss Eleanor Bailey, Mi ss Frederick L.
Wright and Mrs. John Hart.
ENTERTAIN CHURCH GLEANERS
CLASS
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Halxicker enter-tained
the Church Gleaners Class of the U.
II . Sunda y School at. their homo on Derry
Road, on Saturday aftcriiiMin , June 19th.
Those present were: Catherine Strlmblc,
Dorothy Halxicker , Helen Ehcrsolo", Marie
Mays, Evelyn Cramer, Mary Znll, Ruth
Freltn , Josephine Baker , Marian Hera,
Dorothy Mays, Ruth Habecker, Ruth
Mays, Mr. Stoinberger, Mrs, Levi Hess,
Sara Hess, Levi I less, Jr., John Habecker,
Clyde Halxicker, Helen Habecker, Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Halxicker and Elizabeth
Habecker. teacher.